Getting Settled

On Thursday the 14th we drove 11 hours from my in-laws' home in Georgia to our new hometown in West Virginia. I have so much to say about our drive and the beauty of this region but I will save that for my next post. We weren't sure how the drive would go, as our daughter is not the best traveler by car or plane, but we were pleasantly surprised. We stopped four times along the way for bathroom breaks and leg stretches and made it safely in to town that evening.
The next day we closed on our very first home (more on that later) and were getting our few possessions that drove up with us settled in. Our stuff from Seattle was scheduled to arrive originally on the the 15th. However, on the 13th the representative from the moving truck company contacted us to notify us it would actually be the 18th. We were fine with that because that would give us time to figure out a few things in the area and clean up around the house before our stuff arrived. On the 15th, two days after the first phone call, the representative notified us that in fact our stuff would actually not arrive until the 26th to the 28th! They informed us that our belongings had actually not even left Seattle yet and was scheduled to depart Tuesday the 19th.
So for the last week and a half we have been camping out in our new home. We are not strangers to doing camp outs with our kids inside the home, as it was actually one of their favorite things to do in our apartment in Seattle however it has been a bit challenging at times. Thank goodness for the kindness of my mother-in-law who cooked us some food and froze it for us before we left Georgia, so that we would only have to warm it in the microwave. After a few days though we realized it would be beneficial to at least buy a pan and cookie sheet so we could make some eggs for breakfast and cook things in the oven.
We purposely sent our stuff two weeks before we were scheduled to arrive here to allow the 7-10 days of travel time as they had told us. We could've really been upset about  the delay but there is no point. We cannot change the circumstances and we are truly blessed to have what we do have. So this is just another part of our new adventure. As I sit here typing this post on the fire place hearth, our only place to sit in the house, I am thankful for these opportunities. It has given us a chance to fully enjoy the things we do have and our new surroundings. Every meal is spent eating outside on our newly purchased plastic outdoor furniture, using our Coleman cooler as a universal table to place our food. Our nights are spent sleeping on the floor in sleeping bags and our food is ate on paper plates with plastic utensils. We hope that our stuff arrives this week as promised but I can't deny that even this little road bump is a fun and memorable part of our adventure.

Our son enjoying his breakfast on a beautiful W. Va sunny morning